Posted in 21st century skills, history, lesson plans, professional development, social studies, strategies, teacher, teaching, technology integration, tagged best practice, history, history tech, lesson plans, PLN, social studies, social studies central, teaching, wiebe on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teaching has always seemed to be an individual activity, forcing teachers to figure things out on their own. Using trial and error isn’t necessarily a bad thing when conducting a science experiment but probably not something that works that well when trying to corral 30 8th graders.
And in the pre-internet days, it was difficult for [...]
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Posted in artifacts, geography, history, images, library, maps, primary sources, social studies, strategies, technology integration, tagged geography, history, history tech, library, library of congress, maps, primary documents, wiebe on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote earlier about the map created by Robert Louis Stevenson before he wrote Treasure Island. I especially liked his quote – that maps have:
the power of infinite, eloquent suggestion.
I suggested that we need to use geographic tools and powerful maps to create engaging activities for our kids:
Not one of those cheesy, sad outline maps [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, digital literacy, google, google docs, google tools, strategies, technology integration, tagged google, google docs, history tech, technology, technology integration, wiebe on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As an official Google groupie, I am always looking for new and different ways to use Google tools. My PLN hooked me up with a handy site designed for college kids but one we all should be using.
100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School has some old chestnuts (using Google Search to [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, brain research, cool, digital literacy, learning styles, professional development, social networks, social studies, strategies, technology integration, tagged brain, history, history tech, ning, social network, strategy, students, wiebe on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I was told once that in the typical social studies classroom, 85% of the conversation is teacher to student, 10% student to teacher and 5% student to student. (And . . . no, I can’t remember the source so I suppose you can adjust the numbers as you see fit.)
But even if the numbers aren’t [...]
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Posted in 21st century skills, artifacts, history, lesson plans, library, primary sources, social studies, strategies, tagged history, historytech, library, library of congress, lincoln, primary sources, strategy, wiebe on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Donated to the Library of Congress in 1937 and labeled “Do Not Open,” the box sat in the office of the Librarian of Congress for almost 40 years. Finally, in 1975, Librarian Daniel Boorstein untied the string and pulled off the brown wrapping paper.
Inside?
Twelve items – including several pairs of glasses, newspaper clippings, a pocketknife [...]
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